A tornado sounds like a train…a train barreling down the tracks. I remember the sound distinctly. Growing up in Oklahoma, tornado “watches” and “warnings” were commonplace. “The calm before the storm” was more than a saying. I would go outside with my dad to look at the sky during the eerie stillness and quietness. Then [...]
Psalm 62:1-2 Truly my soul finds rest in God; my salvation comes from him. Truly he is my rock and my salvation; he is my fortress, I will never be shaken. Spiritually exhausted? Feel like you are chasing your tail? Busy, running hard, but getting nowhere fast? Could it be that you’re spent from running [...]
John 5:24 Very truly I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged but has crossed over from death to life. There are many reasons you may have for not being a Christian. You may not feel like you need Jesus. You may [...]
After a recent sermon, I got one of those e-mails I put in my “Need to Keep” file. The person wrote that she was sick of failing in the same area over and over again. So she came up with a “battle plan.” She wrote out the plan and put it in her wallet so [...]
1 Peter 2:24 “He himself bore our sins” in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; “by his wounds you have been healed.” The human heart is caught in a contradiction. On one hand God has placed eternity in our hearts, leaving us with a God-shaped [...]
